The Writing Prompt Boot Camp

April PAD Challenge: Day 27

After today, we’ll be just three days away from closing out this challenge. 3 days! We’re so very, very close. I know we can do it.

For today’s prompt, I want you to write a poem of longing. You or someone (or something) else should be pining for someone or something. Maybe a cat is longing to get outside the house. Maybe a teenager is longing to get away from his or her small town. And, of course, there’s always the longing poem of love.

Here’s my attempt for the day:

“The Librarian”

She stands beside a bookshelf over-whelmed by so many exposed spines.She creates stories she’d like to readthat haven’t been written. Then, shestruggles to get the words right.Maybe tomorrow will be better, shethinks. But she knows, she knows.She knows yesterday is a predictionfor tomorrow. The clever and cuteboy who doesn’t let it get to his headnever appears beside her desk. Hershirt forgets the body it’s holdinguntil she disappears behind her glasses,a sweater and flower-print skirt.

Too much to ask for one honest broker?
One person we can just rely on to look
out for us instead of always scrimping
and arguing and cheating
over the smallest amount of money?
Not in this real estate market,
not in any, I’d guess.

Is there really a place like Cheers
Where everybody knows your name?
With neighbors like Lucy and Ricky, or Paul and Jamie, or the Huxtables?
I want to go there
I want to live in Stars Hollow and eat at Luke’s Diner
I want to borrow Mrs. Cleaver’s pearls
and talk into a shoe phone like Maxwell Smart
It would be great to hang out with Potsie, Ralph, and Richie
or discuss politics with Alex Keaton.
Oh to party-party-party with the Seavers when Chrissy goes to bed,
or do the Dance of Joy with Balki and Cousin Larry.
Just like Kevin and Winnie, I’d get by with a little help from my friends.